worthless - Story 170699 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news had spread, and now people kept looking at him with pity. He didn’t want their pity. He wanted to scream.

He made an excuse and left work early. He went to his apartment and locked the door behind him. He didn’t bother to change out of his work clothes. He sat on the floor, the cold tile pressing against his skin.

He felt a deep sense of wrongness, of inadequacy, filling him like a poison. He’d never reach the level he wanted.

Emotion: worthless

Cluster: Sadness / Despair

PC1 (Valence): -2.10 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.15

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion worthless. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 worthless stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the worthless emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the worthless vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`L`	0.427
`S`	0.405
`😞`	0.386
`ness`	0.339
`缺乏`	0.326

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.320
`(!)`	-0.286
`随后`	-0.268
`😍`	-0.262
`tc`	-0.255